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HomeFeatures How a horse inside another horse saved the Holy Roman Empire in Age Of Empires 2And why its Dawn Of The Dukes expansion is the best single-player content AOE2 has ever had And why its Dawn Of The Dukes expansion is the best single-player content AOE2 has ever had “In the past,” saysAge Of Empires 2project lead Bert Beeckman, “if we wanted, say, the AI playing the Holy Roman Empire to stay in the game even if they lost all their units, there was… a little trick we had to do”....

HomeNewsI Am Fish I Am Fish is set to release this SeptemberThis is the first I’m herring about it This is the first I’m herring about it You’ve been bread, and now it is nearly time to be fish, because Bossa Studios' upcoming physics-based platformerI Am Fishwill launch on September 16th. Similarly toI Am Bread, you’ll be flip-flopping around in all sorts of precarious situations, except this time you’re a sea creature who’s trying to get to the ocean....

HomeNewsInto The Pit Into The Pit is a roguelike where you shoot magic bullets from your handsIt looks like Doom but with more magic It looks like Doom but with more magic During Xbox’s Gamescom showcase tonight, I certainly wasn’t expecting to find a new roguelite to end up obsessing over, yet here we are.Into The Pitis an upcoming “retro-FPS” that sends you into demonic-looking dungeons to shoot baddies with magic hand bullets....

HomeHardwareNews Razer mice and keyboards found to possess admin-granting powers on Windows PCsRazer is working on a fix, though Razer is working on a fix, though Razeris a familiar name on ourbest gaming mouseandbest gaming keyboardlists, but it turns out these serpentine peripherals have a rather unnerving hiden talent: simply plugging one in, and installing the Razer Synapse software, is apparently enough to grant admin privileges on any Windows 10 orWindows 11PC....

HomeHardwareDeals Samsung’s 1TB T5 SSD is down to £90, a historic low priceUp to 540MB/s, via USB-C or full-size USB. Up to 540MB/s, via USB-C or full-size USB. Samsung’s T5 SSD is one of the best portable drives on the market, offering up to 2TB of fast storage for a reasonable price. Today that price is more reasonable than usual, as Amazon UK have discounted the drive to £90 for a 1TB capacity - a new historic low price....

HomeHardwareFeatures The Steam Deck interview: Valve’s designers on all things hardware, software, and knowing when to stopWe sit down with Valve’s design team to talk all things Steam Deck We sit down with Valve’s design team to talk all things Steam Deck Earlier this month, I sat down withSteam Deckdesigners Greg Coomer and Lawrence Yang to talk about Valve’s new portable handheld PC. It’s without doubt one of the most exciting things to happen in PC gaming in recent years - I’m certainlylooking forward to it, and I knowmany of you are as well....

HomePodcasts The Weekspot podcast: Psychonauts 2 was worth the waitBrain power Brain power Double Fine did it: they made a sequel toPsychonautsthat’s great. And different, too. It’s a follow-up with modern day sensibilities that plays much better than the original. Given that it was one of our most anticipated games of the year, it’s fair to say we’re quite pleased. Another enjoyable thing is that news happened over the last week....

HomeNews American McGee shares the script for Alice 3He’s still trying to get it made He’s still trying to get it made A decade afterAlice: Madness Returns, American McGee is still trying to make a third game in his edgy fantasy platformer series. He’s been running a Patreon so goths can support this dream, and on Friday he shared a 147-page script and ‘narrative outline’ with the bones of what he wantsAlice: Asylumto be....

HomeNewsDie After Sunset Die After Sunset looks like Fortnite’s roguelike cousin and you can try it nowBattle with hordes of cute but shadowy baddies Battle with hordes of cute but shadowy baddies “Whilst adorable and clumsy in the light, Murkors transform into powerful beasts when in the shadows,” explain developers Playstark. “As the sun sets in each stage, choose how to combat the enemy and use light to your advantage to keep those pesky Murkors under control!...

HomeNews Gamescom Opening Night Live’s hype trailer spills some more attendeesA trailer for your trailers, of course A trailer for your trailers, of course We’ve already found out courtesy of host man Geoff Keighley that theGamescom Opening Night Livewill be a two hour long showcase event. As ever with Keighleyvents there are guaranteed to be tons of trailers and some world premiers and exclusive looks at cosmetic crossover items or something of the like....

HomeDeals Get a Ryzen 4600H and GTX 1650 gaming laptop for £573A great price for a gaming laptop with a discrete graphics card. A great price for a gaming laptop with a discrete graphics card. Over the past couple of years I’ve had a fair few friends pick up Lenovo Legion gaming laptops, as they offer good specs and a nice design at a reasonable price. That’s why I jumped on this option to share a deal that sees last year’s entry-level model fall to a price below most office laptops....

HomeReviewsHoa Hoa review: a gorgeous platformer with big Studio Ghibli vibesSnug as a bug Snug as a bug While Level-5’s pair of Ni No Kuni games lay the biggest claim to being interactive Studio Ghibli movies (thefirsthaving actually been made in collaboration with Hayao Miyazaki’s world famous animation studio and thesecondborrowing a former Ghibli character designer), the Vietnamese-madeHoacomes a very close second. Not only do Skrollcat Studio’s lush, hand-painted visuals look like they’ve been plucked straight from the dewy, sun-dappled forests of My Neighbour Totoro, but you can hear it in the music, too....

HomeReviewsKing’s Bounty II Kings Bounty 2 review: good strategy packaged with a baggy RPGWhere does the King stand on other chocolate bars? Where does the King stand on other chocolate bars? You know when you order, say, a single HDMI cable from Amazon and it comes in a cardboard box the size of a dog coffin? That’sKing’s Bounty 2. Excessively over packaged. There’s a tight, varied, often-challenging Heroes Of Might And Magic-style tactical battler here, but you’ll have to tear through layers of baggyDragon Age-style RPG to get to it....